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JahaRa

JahaRa

Noble
I have been getting tomatoes from the garden every morning from one plant. The others are still ripening. I have a lot of melons on my Navajo Yellow cantalope and 2 big ones on the other local variety.

The potatoes are blooming like crazy now. Lots of onions, but the cucumber is still thinking about making fruit.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
When you are online shopping and surfing product reviews which ones do you go for first? I always start at the bottom. Was just looking at something and came to another realization about that - sometimes people just didn't know what the hell they are doing and are far too quick to run to the computer and advertise that fact. I'd argue the time was better spent actually looking at whatever it is and maybe divining it's secrets than typing about how horrible it is.
 
michael59

michael59

Celestial
pigfarmer said:
When you are online shopping and surfing product reviews which ones do you go for first? I always start at the bottom. Was just looking at something and came to another realization about that - sometimes people just didn't know what the hell they are doing and are far too quick to run to the computer and advertise that fact. I'd argue the time was better spent actually looking at whatever it is and maybe divining it's secrets than typing about how horrible it is.
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Depends on how many reviews there are and how much money I will be spending on the product. I usually read them all.

I just went through this while researching the doctor's office across the street. There was one lady who gave him a really bad, but thorough review of her experience. She even left her name to her posting The rest were positive reviews.

By the time I was finished with my appointment, I knew exactly what the lady was talking about. The positive reviews must have been written by men. He was the biggest chauvinist I have come across in quite some time. What a condescending asshole. I'll never go back there.
 
JahaRa

JahaRa

Noble
michael59 said:
Depends on how many reviews there are and how much money I will be spending on the product. I usually read them all.

I just went through this while researching the doctor's office across the street. There was one lady who gave him a really bad, but thorough review of her experience. She even left her name to her posting The rest were positive reviews.

By the time I was finished with my appointment, I knew exactly what the lady was talking about. The positive reviews must have been written by men. He was the biggest chauvinist I have come across in quite some time. What a condescending asshole. I'll never go back there.
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I had that experience with a vet. My mother's dog broke it's leg and the vet would not xray the leg until she signed a document saying she would pay 3000.00 for surgery. She refused because it was not her regular vet and if the vet did not know whether the dog needed surgery or not. She finally just insisted on the xray and had to pay 300.00 for that. We were in there for 2 hours arguing with that woman. I went to Yelp and there were 4 reviews that said the same thing I posted, horrible service, no care for the animals. The next day I got an email saying the owner vet had responded to my review. His response was stupid excuses, and there were 23 new reviews over night that essentially said the same thing "this vet is wonderful", I suspect family members and staff created those reviews.

You can't always trust the reviews online, especially on Yelp.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
My wife had been absorbing perhaps a bit too much HGTV and wanted something different for the bathroom renovation. I did it myself in '98 and in 2015 it was time for a new one. We went to a locally owned home improvement center - yes they do still exist - and engaged one of their 'designers'. This place is old school and supposed to be top notch, been around forever. Let's just say that things took unfortunate turns. We did get a nice bathroom and believe me, this place ain't fancy.

I was just going to stick this in here because I always remembered it and in my mind at least, seems appropriate here. At some point at work we used to stick these up on the walls. In a weird Mandela Effect I remember it as 'the conversation was brisk and pleasant until Tantor noticed the ivory keyboard'. A friend and I joked about it for years afterward and now there's zero reference to be found of that.
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The shadow

The shadow

The shadow knows!
July has been a horrible month. My family had a crisis. I will not go into detail but to say that one of my teenage daughters learned life has no redo button. At least my oldest son has little league playoffs today.
 
coubob

coubob

Celestial
That friend of mine that has the 49cc 2 stroke motor on a beach cruiser, had a spill or 2. The story was he was trippin on mushrooms (not good on a bike)and had finally put caliper brakes on it over the back fender. he had took out the coaster brake in the hub cause it kept catching and getting all fu@&ed up under the load of the engine, or cause he dont know how to work the damn clutch. but anyhow as he was riden the back fender brakes loose where the caliper brakes mount. and it goes under the tire and was sliding on it doing 35mph or so till he slid the pavement on his side with no shirt on, this happen a couple of houses down from me. he come up with road rash from the top of his jeans up to under his left arm, and other stuff. he took off the back fender and threw it away in my trash and left. i thought he might go home,right . no he goes out flying around more and the freaking front fender does the same thing, at wide open this time .fender between the tire and pavement once more.. I seen him yesterday with a cane barely able to stand up. i gave him a fiorecet or two so he could manage to sleep. jeez oh and somewhere he lost his muffler and had to back track till he found it. I`m like dude dont do the maintance on your bike shrooming or ride the damn thing.I think he will be getting a leather vest of sorts now.lol
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
coubob said:
That friend of mine that has the 49cc 2 stroke motor on a beach cruiser, had a spill or 2. The story was he was trippin on mushrooms (not good on a bike)and had finally put caliper brakes on it over the back fender. he had took out the coaster brake in the hub cause it kept catching and getting all fu@&ed up under the load of the engine, or cause he dont know how to work the damn clutch. but anyhow as he was riden the back fender brakes loose where the caliper brakes mount. and it goes under the tire and was sliding on it doing 35mph or so till he slid the pavement on his side with no shirt on, this happen a couple of houses down from me. he come up with road rash from the top of his jeans up to under his left arm, and other stuff. he took off the back fender and threw it away in my trash and left. i thought he might go home,right . no he goes out flying around more and the freaking front fender does the same thing, at wide open this time .fender between the tire and pavement once more.. I seen him yesterday with a cane barely able to stand up. i gave him a fiorecet or two so he could manage to sleep. jeez oh and somewhere he lost his muffler and had to back track till he found it. I`m like dude dont do the maintance on your bike shrooming or ride the damn thing.I think he will be getting a leather vest of sorts now.lol
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ahhhh @coubob that’s field engineering at it's finest ! I think you have a YouTube channel there before you and may not realize it :)
 
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michael59

michael59

Celestial
The strangest thing just happened. I woke up to use the washroom, it was 4:30am, or 15 minutes ago. It was quite warm which meant the AC unit in the living room was in fan mode because it needed to be drained. I sat down and started draining it when I noticed a really bright, white light on the floor of balcony. As soon as I parted the blinds, it disappeared.

I could explain why that's impossible, but I don't want to cause I'm tired, but it is impossible.
 
michael59

michael59

Celestial
michael59 said:
The strangest thing just happened. I woke up to use the washroom, it was 4:30am, or 15 minutes ago. It was quite warm which meant the AC unit in the living room was in fan mode because it needed to be drained. I sat down and started draining it when I noticed a really bright, white light on the floor of balcony. As soon as I parted the blinds, it disappeared.

I could explain why that's impossible, but I don't want to cause I'm tired, but it is impossible.
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Now the ceiling fan just did 4 complete slow turns and then backed up the tiniest bit before coming to a full stop. It has not been turned on in at least a week.
 
michael59

michael59

Celestial
michael59 said:
Now the ceiling fan just did 4 complete slow turns and then backed up the tiniest bit before coming to a full stop. It has not been turned on in at least a week.
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The balcony lit up again just now. This time I had enough time to open the blinds and get a good look. I still cannot tell you where the light source is coming from.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
There is some critter roaming around outside the house just out of range of the motion detectors. There is just enough low level lighting on to make out a form, maybe dog sized. Not a cryptid but I wish it would eat its breakfast or whatever the hell its doing and move on already, it's creeping me out a little. Not in the best mood this morning and if I had a hand grenade I think I might actually toss it out the window.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I think it's a coyote but wouldn't rule out a creeping goat sucker either.

Of course, the Krantz approach says we need a body to dissect to be certain. Give me a few, I'll run out there and take care of that.
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The shadow

The shadow

The shadow knows!
Senior photo day.
Kate in white wildflowers in her hair a penticle necklace. Sat before a pride flag. Each was asked for one sentence for the yearbook.
Kate wrote just two words: blessed be.
Debbie in her cheerleading outfit.
Her gold cheerleading pins and national Honor society pin.in front of her school logo.
She wrote: for Jesus,for brian, for me.
 
The shadow

The shadow

The shadow knows!
8-4. So it ends. My boy's team the south side sluggers lost to the west side wildcats.as the wildcats became city champs. Ian had a quiet night only reached base once. They may have lost the game but they won the pizza party.
 
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